http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/01/09/the-death-panel-and-marriage-open-line Comments On: The death panel and marriage open line by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:17:17 -0600 Arkansas Times >You know, the idea of breaking the law adds a little bit to the excitement of gambling, just like the street corner craps games, where you never know when the police are going to break it up.
--jim

Except in the bars and clubs of [my] Hot Springs local police guarded the slots, casinos and gambling parlors during their off time. They were paid well. They also let local operators know in advance of any state police raids.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:03:24 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:18:42 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Self Appointed Arbiter]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:59:00 -0600 Arkansas Times like any other.

Sometimes I wish we swung from the chandelier having sex all the time (as
Teabagging evangelicals like to paint us), but we don't. We're just like you.

I wish our marriage was different from the straights, but it's not. We fight
about the exact same things.

WIES and I are still squabbling about her Step-Dad from the Thanksgiving fiasco (He's still causing problems and draining $ from our account).
We fight about finances. We fight about our pets. We fight about where to
put the sofa. We fight about the toaster. We fight about my love for SEC
football (she has a point there), and we fight about her always being late.

Marriage is hard, whether it's gay or straight. We've been together 7 1/2 years
and legally married in 8 states for 6 months. It's a fucking track meet.

I adore WIES but no longer think we're infallible. We're just like you.

Durango, where is that 3-carat diamond you promised me in the Caribbean?
Posted by Mrs. Sistertoldja]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:16:03 -0600 Arkansas Times
Speaking of death (and Hot Springs), here is an unusual obituary (I collect ‘em) published in the Sentinel-Record yesterday. The Spa City is filled with peculiar people, and obviously Miss Gillem was one of ‘em. Read on:

Blue Gillem, 80, died the night of Dec. 23, 2012, after a heartwrenching fight against Alzheimers and metastatic cancer.

Blue (née Marilyn Sayre) was a mouthy, often abrasive, always entertaining woman whose very name is testament to her ability to “cuss a blue streak.”

She never married and had no children, but changed her name after running away from her home in Ohio to live in Arkansas with one of horse racing’s more successful trainers. She spent a carefree life of traveling, attending horse races and parties.

Blue grew into a very private woman in her last ten years, yet always had time for young children and animals. She was impossible to get along with, was always right, and enjoyed rubbing people the wrong way.

For the minuscule few that really knew her, we knew of a tender, playful side that showed itself when she saw fit to show it.

She died just before Christmas — her favorite holiday — and we hope that since she had spent Christmas alone for many years, that she rejoined those who passed away long before her and that together they had a true Christmas celebration.

Blue was predeceased by her enormous and loyal black lab, Peter Sunshine Esquire. She is survived by her two friends, who were also her caregivers, Alana and Jessica. She passed peacefully in their arms as the song “Last Kiss” played.

She would also want listed as survivors her loving cat Tiger and dog Charley with whom she spent countless contented hours. There will be no memorial service.

(I’d bet a year’s worth of Power Ball tickets that Blue and jazzy woulda loved each other.)
Posted by Durango]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:41:09 -0600 Arkansas Times Could there be a solution to the mobile delay, Max?
Posted by zebedee duda]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:43:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
The farm bill extension also put the following at Jeopardy:  

A number of programs lost mandatory money, and are now authorized, but subject to funds being appropriated, which is unlikely. Some of those programs include:

·          Disaster Programs (except SURE, which was not reauthorized at all)

·          National Clean Plant Network (authorized at $5 million, subject to appropriation)

·          Specialty Crop Research Initiative (authorized at $100 million, subject to appropriation)

·          Farmers Market Promotion Program (authorized at $10 million, subject to appropriation)

·          Organic Ag Research and Extension (authorized at $25 million, subject to appropriation)

·          National Organic Certification Cost-Share (authorized at $22 million, subject to appropriation)

·          Biomass Crop Assistance program (authorized at $20 million, subject to appropriation)

 

Other programs not funded:

·          Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program

·          Value-Added Producer Grants

·          Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program

·          Outreach and Technical Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers

·          Biobased Marketing Program

·          Biodiesel Fuel Education Program

·          Rural Energy for American Program

·          Biomass Research and Development

·          Biorefinery Assistance

·          Bioenergy for Advanced Biofuels

·          Voluntary Public Access

·          Desert Terminal Lakes

·          Small Watershed Rehabilitation

Small minded government at its best.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:03:38 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:55:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Self Appointed Arbiter]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:53:27 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Conwegian]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:35:22 -0600 Arkansas Times
Birthers to try and impeach Chief Justice Roberts

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/j…
Posted by Cato]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:30:59 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:41:54 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Big Oil, Big Ketchup and "The Assassination of Hugo Chavez"

Chavez's Robin Hood thing, shifting oil money from the rich to the poor, would have been grudgingly tolerated by the US. But Chavez, who told me, "We are no longer an oil colony," went further - too much further, in the eyes of the American corporate elite.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13800-bi…
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:31:02 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:29:25 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/

This will take you direct to Jughead the Fourth and the comments:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Wors…

Charlie's link to Max works from that end.
Posted by Silverback66]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:00:02 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:36:17 -0600 Arkansas Times
The National Research Council and Institute of Medicine compared the health of Americans to that of people in Canada, Australia, Japan, and 13 European countries. Americans did worse in nine areas: infant mortality; injury and homicide rates; teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases; the AIDS virus; drug abuse; obesity and diabetes; heart disease; lung disease; and disabilities.

But Americans do have a lower death rate from cancer and we manage blood pressure and cholesterol better, and if we are fortunate enough to reach age 75, we live longer than people in our peer countries.

http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/09…
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:34:39 -0600 Arkansas Times
Your link to WLFITU-Charles Pierce doesn't work.
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:33:26 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:25:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
Currently, thoughtful women are atwitter over Nancy Pelosi photo-shopping some absent members into an official photograph. Pelosi readily admitted doing it because it was freezing and she didn't want to ask members to stand out in the cold waiting. This makes her a liar or something.

The article Sunshine linked was a link to Politico. Since there are no comments at ThoughtfulWomen yet, it is hard to say if thoughtful women like Cotton or not. I am reasonable certain that thoughtless women will adore him.
Posted by the outlier]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:12:20 -0600 Arkansas Times
Get it on paper, signed and witnessed so you will be your own death panel.

60% of Medicare is spent on the last six months of life or dying, which ever you prefer.

The fastest growing age segment of our society is the 90+ group. What purpose that will serve is beyond me.

Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:03:25 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by FullThrottle]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:55:58 -0600 Arkansas Times >illegal slot machines.

If only they were. Growing up in Hot Springs during the heydays of illegal gambling, Orval was guv, I miss the old 'one-armed bandits.' They were all chrome or stainless, had wonderful bells, glaring art designs and real grinding sounds as wheels scrapped and interlocked, grinding out a music only the hopeful could love. I hit a few 25cent jackpots. It would buy gasoline for a month for my VW bug.

But today's circuit boards in cheap fiberboard boxes or tin are just lacking-tacky and don't pay off as well and those electric jips, beeps, and other weird sounds will never replace the ring of a real "JACKPOT" bell when three rows of cherries lined up.
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:49:48 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Michael Roberts]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:43:03 -0600 Arkansas Times